Arman Khalili

Harbor Ridge Capital is a boutique mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, working with lower middle market growth companies to advise them on such initiatives as raising institutional capital, acquiring businesses, or being acquired. Harbor Ridge focuses primarily on established, growing, technology companies within growth industries such as internet infrastructure, hosting, data centers, IT services, and healthcare technology.

AKIT is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in; * Data Center design and operations with IT loads of < 6 MW. * Deep IP and Network design and operations. * Extensive server and IT infrastructure management. * Data Center construction ranging from greenfield to retrofit -m per MW. * Sales and Business development with emphasis on revenue generation and profitability.

UnitedLayer was formed during the worst economics times which created an extraordinary opportunity. We built a state of the art IP backbone with over 65% peering and over 700 peers. We were the largest retail colocation provider in San Francisco with over 35,000 sq ft of conditioned space and over 4 MW of IT Load. Hands on management of sales, finance and operations where the company doubled in size 3 years in a row. Created the City's largest retail colocation company on a limited budget.

Designed, prepared and produced course materials for two new classes through UCLA extension programs. Course, X417.48, Designing, Implementing, Managing, and Operating IP Networks/Systems 24x7. The second course, X817.12, titled Economics for IP Networks, was offered once a year. Conducted extensive research and summarized past professional experiences to produce “real world” case scenarios. Authored course material, in-class financial model analysis and numerous handouts to complement the lectures.

CTO of Musicbank, the first online technology platform for delivering on-demand access to music in partnership with the 5 major labels Sony, BMG, EMI, Time Warner and Vivendi/Universal along with the major publishing companies.

Architect-ed, designed and implemented a unique distributed overlay network for a CDN with especial consideration to low latency, high throughput and minimal packet loss utilizing highly optimized TCP/IP stacks. Managed and deployed a distributed server clusters in 7 locations throughout Europe, Asia and the United States with a staff of one within a 6 weeks period.

Co-founded and architect-ed the industries first Secured Email ASP with emphasis on secured Messaging and groupware based on server-side PKI (Private Keys resided at Nextlayer’s servers, with SSL as the client side encryption technology). Raised a small seed funding to demonstrate technical proof-of-concept and acquired key strategic clients.

Customer interfacing senior consultant, direct involvement in product/services marketing and sales. Consulted on various VOIP networks design and roll outs for small to large scale telecommunications companies offering services in Asia. Consulted on large-scale IP networks for top 50 Internet sites, personally responsible for signing up Infoseek, Critical Path, Yahoo, E-bay, spinner.com and UCSD just to name a few.

Customer interfacing senior consultant, direct involvement in product/services marketing and sales. Market sensing & competitive analysis for Internet offerings across various business units. At the time AT&T was behind in its IP services offerings, extensive evangelicalism across various departments to ensure that clients received appropriate services with superb services.

o-founded one of the SF Bay Area's earliest ISP, started with a 56K dedicated circuit connected to BarNet with 4 Intel 14.4K modems. BGP v3, cisco AGS+, NeXT computers + Sun 4/260 and 1 1/2 years before the www. By the time Sirius was acquired we had over 25,000 dialup users, a California wide IP backbone. First ISP to roll out flat rate .95/month and Centrex ISDN in the country. Evaluated, monitored, and qualified sales and marketing efforts for all products and services.